Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-10-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.


wife for 81, 1000.
Engine No. Is has been running
six weeks on the Staten Island Rapid
Transit road and in that time has
killed five persons.
"A thirty-twO foot spruce log was
recently sawed into boards in a Puget
Sound mill, and made 6, 400 feet OF
lumber without a knot.
The remarkable story comes from
Colorado that a flock of showed under
sheep lived two weeks and grew fat
feeding on each others fleece
"A cycler III Great Falls. New
Hampshire, has on hand a suit for
$4,000 damages, brought against him by
the father of a child he ran into with
his wheel.
San Diego, California, has one of
the wisest Cinnamon in the world.
lie Is laundryman, and lie has kept
an advertisement running IN the local
paper for fifteen years.
-Celeryvllle is one of the familiar
names for Kalamazoo, Michigan, where
there are two thousand acres of celery
under cultivation, with a stated aver
age profit of $500 an acre.
Several books of county records
IN iowa, which had long been missing.
were recently found i'll a Davenport
saloon, where they had been pawned
for liquor by former official.
In boring a well near Pine Grove.
ESmeralda County, Nevada, steam OF
temperature hot enough to cool pota-
toes was struck at depth of nearly
sixty feet below tie surface.
The widows of seven clergymen
nrrnnV a giTrIA in
church; but, it IS explained, there are
only two of them, one the widow OC
three, the other of four dIvines.
The Swedes In Orange, Massa-
chusetts, where there are about two
hundred of them, have arranged for
evening school 10 study the English
language, which Is spoken 10y very few
of them.
A great tree, that is said to have
stood for l5O years at the corner of
two streets IN Concord, New Hamp-
shire, has been cut down, as it had be
come so much decayed as to be dan
gerous.
"A Providence, Rhode Island, un-
dertaker, whose wife died lately, en-
balmed the body with fluid of his own
manufacture and so successfully did it
work that he has placed the body on
| exhibition.
There is negro man living near
! Coleman, Georgia, who is the father Of
! thirty-fOur children. He is 81 years
| old, has his third wife with a babe at
her breast, and is as active as most
men at 80.
"A CanajOharie editor has an eye to
! business. He offers his paper for
! year to ''the farmer who will lay the
! largest egg on his editorial table, :"
/ well knowing he would get mole than
enough eggs to pay for his paper.
The bones of mastodon were
! found by workmen on the Minnesota
and Northwestern Railroad, not far
! from Galena, the other day. One
| tooth, weighing seven pounds, and i
! huge tusk were part of the find.
"A soprano in Buffalo seems to have
! voice OF power rather than of sweet
ness To a newspaper that had pub
/ lshed one complaint from him on the
/ subject correspondent sends another,
| saying, "IOur first dose has not
! abated the noise; the lady up stairs
yells worse than ever. If you fail us
all hope is gone"
AT Scranton, recently, a baby car
riage which had been left standing on
the sidewalk by Its juvenile attendant
while he gazed in a show window, was
started of by gust Of wind and rolled
beneath the feet of a horse The ami
NAL kicked the little vehicle to pieces.
but luckily didn't injure the chr oe-
cupant in the least
In Germany ana switzerland, it Is
! stated, the principals of all schools are
required to dismiss their pupils at noon
every day on which the thermometer
( at 10 y. NJ. registers ~. If that plan
were introduced here and the thermOm-
eter placed within reach of the ingenI-
| Gus boy or the period, there would be
frequent holidays.
1t is announced that State prison
conVicts in Minnesota viii soon start
new weekly paper IN the interest OF the
| prison library fund. 1t Is to be called
The Prison Mirror. One prisoner will
be editor in chief and another will be
| treasurer and business manager.
"A cheerful view, if not a strictly
! correct one, is taken o. seeming mis-
! fortune 10y Texas paper, which ob-
serves: 1t is a good thing that the cattle
in Texas are dying off, for when they
! die off they decrease in number; when
| they decrease in number they become
more valuable; when they become more
| valuable their owner becomes wealthIer
! Therefore it Is a good thing for tie
/ cattle to die of.
Excitement has been caused lateiy
i'll one or two cOmmunes In Hanover,
and three or four in the Rhenish prov
lnces, over the discovery Of the Color
ado bug; also over the appearance of
| phylloXera i'll vineyard AT Biberich,
said TO have been introduced In lot
! of vines, expressly imported by the
! owner in order to guard against the
| scOurge.
"A Parliamentary committee (BrIU-
| lsh) has reported that pensions, allow
ances and payments ought not iu fu-
| tuTe TO be granted in perpetmty, on the
! ground that all such grants should be
| limited to the persons actually render
! ing the services intended TO be rewarded
/ by such grants, and that such rewards
! should be wholly or IN main part de-
1rayed by the generation benefited by
the services 50 recognized.
bravery seems to be a wholesale
! quality in the Bulgarian army. Early
| this year the Vienna Mint received an
/ order for 90, 600 silver medals, which,
/ together with a second lot of about
! 1000, were promptly despatched to
| Sofa for distribution 10 the brave
army. Besides these, 10000, made OF
: bronze, were delivered by an Austrian
/ foundry. Within a month an adiI-
/ tional order for 30 900 silver ones WAS
sent TO Vienna, which the Mint is now
I turning out as fast rs it can.
! Thomas Mccormack, VINO was
formerly town clerk OF Union Town
ship, New Jersey, was buried recently.
/ His death resulted from the bite of 4
spider. Mccormack was wO king in
a quarry, when he felt singing seu-
satIOn in his left arm, and saw a large
black spider there. lie brushed It
away and thought no more OF the
matter. soon his arm began to swell,
and in a few hours it was twice it,
normal size. He was taken to q hos
pital. where lie died.